WO2001099434A3 - Application-specific modules for digital cable devices - Google Patents

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WO2001099434A3
WO2001099434A3 PCT/EP2001/006635 EP0106635W WO0199434A3 WO 2001099434 A3 WO2001099434 A3 WO 2001099434A3 EP 0106635 W EP0106635 W EP 0106635W WO 0199434 A3 WO0199434 A3 WO 0199434A3
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pod
digital cable
top box
data processor
set top
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PCT/EP2001/006635
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Sheau Ng
Marcellinus J J C Annegarn
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Koninkl Philips Electronics Nv
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Priority to KR1020027002057A priority Critical patent/KR20020040778A/en
Priority to EP01949403A priority patent/EP1297685A2/en
Priority to JP2002504154A priority patent/JP2004501580A/en
Publication of WO2001099434A2 publication Critical patent/WO2001099434A2/en
Publication of WO2001099434A3 publication Critical patent/WO2001099434A3/en

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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/20—Adaptations for transmission via a GHz frequency band, e.g. via satellite
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/41—Structure of client; Structure of client peripherals
    • H04N21/418—External card to be used in combination with the client device, e.g. for conditional access
    • H04N21/4183—External card to be used in combination with the client device, e.g. for conditional access providing its own processing capabilities, e.g. external module for video decoding
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/41—Structure of client; Structure of client peripherals
    • H04N21/426—Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/438—Interfacing the downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. retrieving MPEG packets from an IP network
    • H04N21/4382—Demodulation or channel decoding, e.g. QPSK demodulation

Abstract

There is disclosed, for use in a digital cable set top box coupled to a television set, a removable circuit apparatus capable of being inserted into a point of deployment (POD) host interface associated with the digital cable set top box, the removable circuit apparatus comprising: 1) a point of deployment (POD) module interface capable of mating with the POD host interface; 2) a data processor coupled to the POD module interface and capable of transmitting to the digital cable set top box at least one of an audio signal and a video signal capable of being displayed on a screen of the television set; and 3) a memory coupled to the data processor capable of storing a user POD application program executable by the data processor.
PCT/EP2001/006635 2000-06-19 2001-06-11 Application-specific modules for digital cable devices WO2001099434A2 (en)

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Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
KR1020027002057A KR20020040778A (en) 2000-06-19 2001-06-11 Application-specific point of deployment modules for use in digital cable compliant devices
EP01949403A EP1297685A2 (en) 2000-06-19 2001-06-11 Application-specific modules for digital cable devices
JP2002504154A JP2004501580A (en) 2000-06-19 2001-06-11 Special-purpose point-of-deployment (POD) modules for digital cable equipment

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US59621600A 2000-06-19 2000-06-19
US09/596,216 2000-06-19

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WO2001099434A3 true WO2001099434A3 (en) 2002-04-25

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US5666487A (en) * 1995-06-28 1997-09-09 Bell Atlantic Network Services, Inc. Network providing signals of different formats to a user by multplexing compressed broadband data with data of a different format into MPEG encoded data stream
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